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[Murray Matson]

"Death to the Car Day?"

At 05:28  02-03-00 +0100, you wrote:
>Dear Friends,
>
>We are trying hard to arrange some high profile, successful follow-ups to
>last week's impressive Bogotá  Car Free Day experience, including in North
>America.  This note concerns a specific problem we face if we are ever going
>to make some near term inroads there.  Here's the problem that we need your
>help with.
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>For a variety of reasons, we need to find a new name for any such
>demonstration projects there. If we are so bald as to call it a "Car Free"
>Day in the States, we know in advance that we are going to have a lot more
>enemies and resistance than friends and support. But we want to take
>advantage of our momentum and do something there now, and so... we need to
>find a new name for our event.
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>We do know what we want: (a) to get 'all' the cars out of the traffic stream
>for one thoughtful day, while (b) encouraging a multiplicity of innovations
>and careful, open, public inspection by any and all over that same period.
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>One suggestion I pondered momentarily was that of a "Clean Transport Day",
>to which my reaction was (predictably?) less than tepid and for reasons that
>I am confident the members of this group will well understand.
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>Of course something like "Sustainable Transport Day" might be an idea, but
>who in the world knows what "sustainable" means?
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>So, not to put too fine a point to this... HELP!!!
>
>Eric Britton
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